Forsthoffer's Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery

674 Pages·2011·104.82 MB·English

by  William E Forsthoffer

Forsthoffer’s Best
Practice Handbook for
Rotating Machinery
W. E. Forsthoffer
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Preface
The objective of this book is to enable the implementation of onrotatingequipmentlessons(coveringeachequipmenttypein
cost effective best practices that will optimize plant safety, order from performance through to mechanical components)
reliability and profits. The information is all presented in one and concluding with construction, pre-commissioning, start-up
book with easy to find best practices that have been demon- andpredictivemaintenancedetails.Ihavealsoincludedachapter
stratedgloballyandhavebenchmarkedsuccess. onCommunicationBestPractices.
Theformatforeachofthe219bestpracticesinthisbookisto As is thecase formyprevious Machinery HandbookSeries,
present: this text is intended for everyone associated with rotating
equipment, regardless of educational background (operators,
- TheBestPracticeinclearandconciseterms
millwrightsandengineers).
- TheLessonLearnedthatresultedintheBestPractice
Insummary,itismyintentiontopresentrotatingmachinery
- Benchmarksor‘references’toprovethatthebestpractice
global best practices attained through my 45+ years in the in-
resultsinincreasedsafety,profitandreliability
dustry, to anyone in any company that has the objective of
- Supportinginformationtoenableyoutoensuretimely
achievingoptimumrotatingequipmentsafetyandreliability.It
managementimplementationofyourrecommendation.
is my belief that the information presented in this book can
Thisbookisarrangedtoalloweasyaccesstoinformation,by significantly increase the implementationrate of recommenda-
beginningwithprojectlessons,progressingtoindividualchapters tionsmadetoplantandcorporatemanagement.
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